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That right there is a wedge that can be opened. (Not be someone who comes across as being left-wing, who they'll likely reject out of hand, mind).
The seed of doubt has been sown, and now it remains to be asked just how kidnapping brown people (phrasing it that way won't work but I'm not currently trying to convince anyone...) benefits them, personally. It's an opportunity to examine the disconnect between things they feel are connected - "everything is shit and I don't have enough money" and "there's too many foreigners and brown people".
You can't rehabilitate these people. What you can do is make them feel betrayed so they point in the right direction, then later shame them back into keeping their racist bullshit buried deep down
They're never going to fully accept that ethnic cleansing is wrong, or even that it wouldn't accomplish their goals, but they can be made to understand it's not socially acceptable to share those opinions
And doing that makes them even think about it less. But deep down, people who cheer these camps and ICE raids will always be deeply racist and lacking in compassion. This isn't ignorance, this is naked desire for an enthnostate.
That degree of racism will always be there, and must always be kept under the surface by social pressure
It's a mixed bag, as the other commenter said.
Not American, but news here have been focusing heavily and specifically on immigrants instances of crime for years, pushing often the same talking points Fox News uses; it affects people's perception of reality, they feel threatened and they are given no perspective on how prevalent it actually is or the systemic reasons why.
Now that doesn't justify the hate they display, but many could be led to reason if the outside pressure leveraging their ignorance stopped.
It is a mixed bag, but the people who can be saved don't think these things are related - they think ICE are going after criminals
They don't think ethnic cleansing is the answer, they just think this is about crime